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In films about climate change, the medium is the wrong message

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | July 7, 2015

climate films

If you'd like, I'm what you'd call an ex-(aspiring) filmmaker, an early vanguard of what promises to be, in one way or another, an eventual mass exodus from the film and television industries. I won't go into my reasoning behind film and television's future demise here, but suffice to say, if left to its own devices, the future of film and television is in the hands of peak oil … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Films Tagged With: fossil fuel replacement, Hollywood, renewable energy

Tired of waiting for the barbarians

By Erik Curren | March 30, 2012

Planet of the Apes shot

Ever since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, Hollywood has fed movie audiences on a steady diet of end-of-the-world thrillers. And from The Time Machine and The Planet of the Apes to The Road and The Hunger Games, for half a century moviegoers have hungrily gobbled up this fare like so many baskets of greasy apocalpytic curly fries. It may seem that people always and everywhere … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: apocalypse, Black Death, eschatology, Hollywood, Matthew Barrett Gross, Mel Gilles, rapture

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